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CONTENTS

Foreword to the 2008 edition by Ziauddin Sardar Foreword to the 1986 edition by Homi K. Bhabha Translator’s Note Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Negro and Language The Woman of Color and the White Man The Man of Color and the White Woman The So-Called Dependency Complex of Colonized Peoples The Fact of Blackness The Negro and Psychopathology The Negro and Recognition By Way of Conclusion

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Index

FOREWORD TO THE 2008 EDITION
Ziauddin Sardar

I think it would be good if certain things were said: Fanon and the epidemiology of oppression The opening gambit of Black Skin, White Masks ushers us towards an imminent experience: the explosion will not happen today.* But a type of explosion is about to unfold in the text in front of us, in the motivations it seeks, in the different world it envisages and aims to create. We are presented with a series of statements, maxims if you like, both obvious and not so obvious: I do not come with timeless truths; fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent; the black man wants to be white, the white man slaves to reach a human level. We are left with little doubt we are confronting a great deal of anger. The resentment takes us to a particular place: a zone of non-being, an extraordinary sterile and arid region, where black is not a man, and mankind is digging into its own ﬂesh to ﬁnd meaning. But this not simply a historic landscape, although Black Skin, White Masks is a historic text, ﬁrmly located in time and place. Fanon’s anger has a strong contemporary echo. It is the silent scream of all those who toil in abject poverty simply to exist in the hinterlands and vast conurbations of Africa. It is the resentment of all those marginalized and ﬁrmly located on the fringes in Asia and Latin America. It is the bitterness of...

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